Even with the utmost of care, a home’s HVAC System – heat, cooling, or a combination system – will need to be replaced. Anticipating the end of its equipment life can help you budget and plan accordingly. Doing so also enables you to select the right equipment and contractor for the job. Yet before we…
How to Battle the Winter Blues
Winter days can be dark, gloomy, and bleak – especially with the reduced amount of daylight hours. Even the heartiest of winter lovers can feel down, irritable, and out of sorts during cold weather months. For some, it’s just a case of mild winter blues while others suffer from seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, which…
How to Protect Your AC System This Winter
From snow and ice to freezing rain and blustery winds, winter can be downright brutal at times. It’s enough to make you forget about those dog days of summer when you longed for a bit a reprieve from the heat and humidity. Well, summer will be back soon enough and, once it arrives, will your…
Fun Facts About Christmas Trees, Past & Present
Drive through just about any neighborhood during the holiday season and you’re sure to see a multitude of indoor and outdoor Christmas trees with festive lights and decorations galore. And while the Christmas tree has been one of the best-known holiday season symbols for centuries, chances are there’s still plenty you don’t know about them.…
How About a Little Feng Shui to Enhance Your Indoor Comfort?!
Have you heard of the ancient Chinese philosophy of feng shui – a concept centered around bringing harmony and positive energy to a space and the people occupying it? If so, great. If not, fear not, because we’re about to explain the concept and how you can put it to work for you. What Is…
Is it Time to Say “See ya!” to Your AC System?
You wouldn’t dare part with your grandfather’s pocket watch or decades-old family photo album. Unthinkable! Your AC System And yet some things are super easy to let go of. Like a hair comb with half its teeth missing. Well, here’s another easy call – a tired, rundown, barely functioning AC system. When it hit the…
5 Home Maintenance Tips for Fall
Travel back in time to the days of road maps, long before GPS was even a dream. Sometimes you got to your destination without a hitch, and other times? Well, maybe those days are best forgotten. Home Maintenance Tips The point is, things always get done more efficiently when there’s a clearly defined path or…
How to Beat the Summer Heat
When Summer heat temps go sky-high, staying cool and comfortable can feel like a lost cause. Sure, you can head indoors for some relief. But what happens when things are just as bad indoors as out? To come out on top, follow these 7 tips for staying cool this summer while saving money using items…
Yes, Your AC System Can Make You Sick
How can an AC system be bad, especially when you consider all the comfort and pleasure it gives you all cooling season long. And, here in the DFW area, that’s a lengthy season. Well, guess what? Your central air system can make you plenty sick. The very best way to fight back is with annual…
How to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Living through cold and flu season – never mind a pandemic – can make you apprehensive about even the simplest of actions. Like taking a breath. As in, will your next breath be the one that infects you? No one needs to live with that as a constant worry. Which means we do what we…